Night Snow said film and television, and wrote a thousand words off topic.
1. Dependent arising
"First Blood" by American best-selling author David Mørle
Novel "First Blood"
First Blood is a 1972 novel by American best-selling author David Morrell based on the film of the same name, First Blood. First Blood is an action film directed by Ted Kotchev and co-starring Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crina, Brian Danelli, and David Carrolle. The film was released in the United States on October 22, 1982. The film tells the story of Rambo, a veteran who is repeatedly bullied by the sheriff in the town, forcing him to flee into the mountains and is forced to fight back against the police. The crew filmed another ending to Rambo's suicide, but during the film's test screening, the audience unanimously responded that it was too depressing, so the crew modified this ending to leave Rambo with a way to live.
It is worth mentioning that Stallone was very dissatisfied with the first cut version of the film, and even wanted to buy the film back and destroy it at his own expense, and when he learned that he could not do so, he suggested that the producer cut his own scenes as much as possible, so the length of the film was cut by half.
2. "First Blood" in China
"First Blood" was translated and produced by Shanghai Film Translation Factory and released in China in July 1985
Translator: Zhu Xiaoting Translation Director: Yang Chengchun
Main voices: Qiao Zhen, Bi Ke, Shang Hua
A poster of the first blood when it was released in China
First Blood Chinese edition
3. The background of the era of "First Blood"
The Rambo series can be said to represent the American spirit throughout the Reagan era.
For nearly half a century, Sylvester Stallone's Rocky series and Rambo series have been the most influential right-wing films. At that time, the United States in the seventies was in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, in the confrontation with the Soviet Union, in the defensive position, suppressed by the Soviet Union, the domestic unemployment and inflation was serious, coupled with the oil crisis, the United States entered the most difficult era since the Great Depression.
President Reagan and Stallone
Stallone and the Grand President
The Rambo collection represents the American spirit of the entire Reagan era. In 1980, Reagan was elected President of the United States. In 1981, Stallone began filming the film First Blood. The novel of the same name was originally an anti-war novel, portraying the protagonist Rambo as a cruel madman. But Stallone personally turned the script into an "anti-war" movie.
Rambo finally breaks his silence in the film, angrily accusing injustice to the Vietnamese veteran: there is no end! No! This battle did not belong to me, it was you who asked me to participate in the war, and I desperately wanted to win this battle, but some people would not let us win. We were born and died for this country, but when we returned home, we saw that the airport was crowded with maggots, protesting, spitting, calling me a baby killer and all kinds of despicable words!
In the film, Rambo represents all the american lovers, all the veteran Americans who were born and died, all the heroic souls who died in the war, and burst out of resentment and anger to the anti-war demonstrations, the Democratic Party of Vietnam, and the small half of the "maggot America" who was instigated.
The sad ending song it's along road is played, and Rambo, accompanied by the colonel, strides out of the police station like a triumphant hero.
The left and right wing reviews of First Blood I are severely divisive. The left sees the film as a "distorted assessment of the Vietnam War," while the right sees it as a great classic.
Stallone's films have played a bigger role than Reagan himself in reshaping America's image as a great power and inspiring people's self-confidence. When "First Blood Episode II" and "Rocky Episode IV" (Rocky heroically defeated the Soviet boxers) were released, the audience in the cinema chanted "usa!" in unison. usa！ Rambo's role became a hallmark of reagan politics, ideology, and the military.
In a way, Rambo also predicted the decline of the Soviet Union— a year after the release of First Blood 3 (in which Rambo helped Afghan guerrillas eliminate a Soviet base on behalf of the U.S. government), the Soviet Union was forced to withdraw from Afghanistan.
Stallone's films have played a big role in reshaping America's image as a great power and inspiring people's self-confidence.
"First Blood 3" Ending: This film is dedicated to the heroic Afghan people
By the way, a sentence appears at the end of First Blood 3, which is dedicated to the heroic Afghan people. It's interesting.
I don't know how to give it, but it was donated by the thousands of American troops in Lamberto, and they never came back.
The name of Afghanistan's "imperial cemetery" is not in vain.
4. Rambo's unit
As can be seen from the cap badge on Colonel Beret, Rambo was subordinate to the Army's Fifth Special Forces Brigade.
The Army's Fifth Special Forces Brigade's coat of arms
This medallion was used in 1964-1985, is very classic, and was reactivated in 2016.
"Green Beret" troop identification sign
The troop identification sign of the "green beret", latin "de oppresso liber" is an army special forces motto meaning "liberate the oppressed"
In response to the special operations needs of the Korean battlefield, the first "green beret" force, the Army's 10th Special Forces Group, was established in June 1952, but just as it was preparing to deploy, the belligerents of the Korean War declared a truce. The 10th Brigade was eventually sent to Europe and deployed in West Germany.
The U.S. Army subsequently established several more special brigades, but after the Vietnam War, the 6th Group responsible for the Direction of the Middle East and the 8th Group for South America were laid off, and the 11th and 12th Brigades were laid off in the 1990s. At that time, the Army Special Forces actively served with the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th and 10th Brigades, as well as the 19th and 20th National Guard Units. The 5th Brigade is headquartered at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, responsible for Southwest Asia and Northeast Africa.
The Army's "Green Beret" Special Forces are deployed primarily in Fort Bryg, where there is a training center, the 75th Einsatzgruppen, five combat groups, and the Delta Special Operations Unit. The 82nd Airborne Division of the 18th Airborne Army is also stationed at Fort Brig.
5. Congressional Medal of Honor
The film mentions that Rambo has received the Congressional Medal of Honor, which is not small.
It dates back to 1862 during the American Civil War and has only been awarded 3460 times to date, most recently in 2016. Members of the Navy, Army and Air Force are eligible for this honor, and each service has its own unique design. It was personally awarded by the President of the United States, who is the supreme commander of the U.S. armed forces. The laureates were required to "risk their lives in battle against the enemies of the United States and show extraordinary bravery."
Congressional Medal of Honor
Certificates of merit are awarded with "in the name of congress", which is often mistaken for "Congressional Medal of Honor"; in fact, there is no word "Congress" in the official name.
randy david shughart ＆gary ivan gordon
In fact, one of the more famous awards since the Vietnam War was awarded to Army Sergeant Gary I. Gordon and Army Sergeant First Class Sergeant Randall D. Shughart, who died in Somalia in 1993.
On October 3, 1993, U.S. troops raided Mogadishu with a 160-strong assault force to capture mohammed Farah Aideed, the largest warlord in the area. However, due to the successive shooting down of two Black Hawk helicopters, delta force sniper Gary I. Gordon and Army First Sergeant Major Randall d. Shughart volunteered to the crash site in the event that ground forces could not reach the second crash site code-named super64.
In the end, the two desperately resisted the militia siege in order to rescue the crew members, and eventually died on the battlefield, and the body was whipped by the Somali militia after death, which eventually triggered Clinton to order the troops to withdraw from Somalia. Two Delta team members saved Super64 pilot Michael Duran with their lives and were personally awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by President Clinton.
Those who served in Operation Desert Storm and in Grenada, Panama and Lebanon were not awarded the Medal of Honor.
During the Vietnam War, 246 were awarded, One was awarded to Lambeau, and as far as I know, Forrest Gump also received one.
Forrest Gump and the "President's Wife (House of Cards)"
Forget it, the general has one more.
Admiral Farran (played by Ed Harris)
The general also has one
6. The difference between the "First Blood" movie and the original novel
On the whole, the sheriff is a dedicated civil servant, and the film portrays him as a villain. The sheriff is a veteran of the Korean War, but he does not see any war trauma in the sheriff, indicating that the psychological trauma of the two wars for two generations of American soldiers is not at all the same. The original book has a narrative about the previous marital problems of the sheriff and the couple, all of which have been deleted, and the sheriff dies of his wounds at the end of the novel, and before he dies, he learns that his wife has decided to divorce him.
In the novel, the relationship between the sheriff and the old man with the lead dog is similar to that of father and son, and the relevant plot is deleted in the movie.
The colonel in the novel is only the principal of Rambo when he was a military school, and the relationship between the two is very general, can only be said to know each other, not as concerned about each other as in the movie, and the colonel is not as bent on saving Rambo as in the movie.
In the novel, Rambo kills someone first, and the police go after Rambo, while in the movie, it becomes that the police try to kill Rambo while pursuing him. Rambo is obviously a lot more sane in the movie.
At the end of the novel, Rambo is shot in the chest by the sheriff and climbs onto a small mound to die. The sheriff who was shot in the stomach and dying together with the colonel found Rambo and was beaten to death by Rambo. Badly injured, Rambo was unable to commit suicide and was shot and killed by the colonel. Neither Rambo nor the sheriff is dead in the film.
7. Gossip time
Let's start by looking back at history. Stallone (born in New York in 1946) and Schwarzenegger (born in Austria in 1947) met at the 34th Golden Globe Awards in 1977. At that time, Stallone became a popular superstar with the movie "Rocky", and Schwarzenegger was not very famous.
Wedding photo of Schwarzenegger and Maria Schlevo in 1986
In 1986, Schwarzenegger married Maria Schlevo, a television journalist and niece of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, maria's mother, Eunice Kennedy Schlevo, the sister of President John F. Kennedy. Later, he helped Schwarzenegger to run for governor of California.
This was when actress Brigitte Nelson became obsessed with Schwarzenegger and chased him from Europe to the United States. Schwarzenegger was a famous wanderer in the entertainment industry at that time, and did not want to be entangled in a relationship.
After learning that Brigitte Nelson also had an idol named Stallone, Schwarzenegger gave stallone the address when she came back to pester. Brigitte Nelson happily accepted, hooked up with Stallone through this address, and married him.
After hooking up with Schwarzenegger, he was dumped by Stallone, and during his marriage to Stallone, he kept exploiting Stallone's property, and Bridget was already married in Europe at the time and had already given birth, and Stallone's marriage procedures with his ex-wife were not fully completed, plus Bridget had many rumors of cheating Stallone.
Movie "Golden Cicada Out of the Shell"
The two turned against each other, and many years later, the two co-starred in the film "Golden Cicada Out of the Shell" for the first time before they reconciled, which can be described as a smile and a vendetta.
Contra
But after playing the game for so long, who knows who is the prototype of Bill Reiser (blue) and Lance Bean (red), these two strong men with guns? The meaning of "Contra" refers to "a person with excellent combat ability and quality", and only the strongest warriors can have this title. The game appeared in 1987, when Stallone and Schwarzenegger were the most powerful warriors and charismatic tough guys on screen.